Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Where Do People Spend Their Money?

The New York Times did a really cool graphic last week on what Americans spend their money on. It's a big graphic and you can zoom in (one level) to read the parts you can't see and the colors indicate change in prices over the last year. I really like the way they did it.

I've say it's very Edward Tufte, except for the odd shapes of all the pieces. He would have put it down differently, something more symmetrical (or square) so that you could have more easily compared milk to dry cleaning.

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Posted by Gary on Tuesday at 7:34 PM on May 13, 2008.
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kilax commented (on May 14, 2008 2:28 PM):

That's neat! I know for a fact that 50% of my income pays for housing items.

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